Five volumes, with an arresting portrait frontispiece; uniformly bound in contemporary full green polished calf with gilt ornament including a lyre in gilt on front and back covers; a most endearing set.A beautifully bound set of the complete works. The...

Octavo, contemporary diced russia, with gilt spine label, title page inscribed 'to Captain McKenzie with the author's best regards'.Standard work by the great Scottish minister, theologian and economist.

[Bombay]: 1875. Octavo, 100 pp., New York Public Library stamp on verso of title-page, preserved in solander box of half green morocco, marbled paper boards.Rare: although often quite whimsical in tone, this work is in fact an empassioned plea to protect the Maori from the worst excesses of European...

Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1857. Octavo, portrait; green cloth, original wrappers bound in.Second edition. Madeline Smith (1835-1928) was tried for murder by arsenic-poisoning and acquitted by the Edinburgh courts. After the highly-publicised trial she married a Dr. Tudor Hora and was urged by her family to leave for the...

London and Edinburgh: Mawman, 1804. Four volumes, octavo; fine in contemporary speckled calf, spines with simple double gilt rules, blue morocco lettering pieces and circular red morocco volume number labels; folding facsimile frontispiece showing Queen Mary's handwriting and a view of the College of Edinburgh.Handsome set of the second...

Octavo, 27 pages, old (original?) marbled wrappers bound in; recent half morocco with crimson spine label, bookplate.A rare and early pamphlet by the prolific Lang, on the foundation of the Australian College, printed in Sydney by Stephens & Stokes the same...

Octavo, 27 pages, old marbled wrappers.A rare and early pamphlet by the prolific Lang, on the foundation of the Australian College, printed in Sydney by Stephens & Stokes the same year that they began publishing the Herald.In his preface, Lang discusses...

Large octavo, 25 volumes; illustrations and plates throughout, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards.A substantial set of the novels of Sir Walter Scott, often considered the best collected edition on account of its lavish illustration and ample size...

Quarto, 26 pp. and final leaf blank but for colophon; neat quarter calf binding.Extremely rare: the separate printing arranged by Alexander Dalrymple of the important Arias Memorial, almost unknown until he rediscovered it, of great...